US Patent Issued to DAIFUKU on Sept. 15 for "Conveying apparatus and conveying method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,268, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to DAIFUKU Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Conveying apparatus and conveying method" was invented by Tadashi Nishikawa (Hino-cho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveying apparatus is capable of conveying an object supported by a support along a vertical direction in a non-restricted area and a restricted area narrower than the non-restricted area. The conveying apparatus has a first detection device, a second detection device and a controller. The first detection device detects whether a runout of the conveyed object supported by the support from a normal position is within or outside the non...